Li'l Ol' Man, Li'l Ol' Deer

[ber643]

(or Don't ya just love it when a plan pans out - finally?)
Remember this from my "Season Opener" Thread?



Well, same tree, no tree stand - That's right my first deer taken from the ground with my traditional bow (told ya it was Li'l).



That's my ACS, "Someone Special". Wanta hang around for the story? I'm a happy hunter anyhoo!

[Danny Rowan]

Way to go Bern. Outstanding ya old jar head you.LOL. Just funnin ya that is really great. Bet that ACS put the arra plum through her.

Danny

[cjones]

Congrats Bernie!    Looks like ya made a great shot too. Can't wait to read the story.

[Guru]

Awesome Bernie!!!  I'd love a story....congrats!!

PS...the little ones are harder to hit  

[Matt E]

You sure did well bernie and at eye leve too. that isn't easy friend!

[buckracks7]

That's the perfect size for dragging, proccessing, and eating. It takes a good shot to hit one like that. Anybody can shoot the big ones. Congratulations!

[mike hall]

Looks to me like you know how to "git r done" Bernie. Nice!!!

[ber643]

Bless your hearts - I  am  hyped up -  :D  

OH - ya talked me into it    .

Picture this. Here it is the last night of bow season, and it is the night before full moon - plus last time out I saw nothing. 'Course I hunt bow all year but still in NC Black powder starts this AM and the only way you get to use bows during this next week is in "bow only" areas like the base has. That's where I had been for the last two years because, while I was seeing deer (like this year), no shot opportunities at legal shooters. So ---"Still" it was "last day of Bow Season" - ya know what I mean? Well, now turns up they are talking a front coming in with possible bad showers and cooler weather in the afternoon and evening. Even my wife said, "Did you hear that?" Yep! I decided I would take my after lunch nap, and when I got up, if it wasn't too sunny - or toooo rainy, I'd go and give it one last bloody go. Looking pretty good when I got up - meaning right overcast. Shortly, I was on the road to the base. About half way there it started raining and by the time I got to my parking area it was pouring cats and dogs and there was Poodels in the street, as they say. I struggled into my rain suit and called the wife to tell her the situation. I knew she'd be wondering about the heavey rain (and lightning - in a metal climber). I told her my "plan" was to sit right where I was until and if it slacked up - I couldn't hardly make out the greens on the Golf Course. If it slacked i would just take my bow and leave my climber in the truck so that I could get out in a hurry if it started up bad again. I lamented that I hadn't put my Torges tree seat in the truck (as I'd meant to a week ago)but I would stand with my back to the big pine and the understory for cover and hope for the best. After all, if it let up and with the front approaching - the deer should walk. Yes!
It did slack up, and by the time I got to my tree it was only very light rain - and cowflap size spatters off the trees of course. Within about 30 minutes I caught movement to my front left that  I was sure wasn't squirrels. Sure enough a decent deer that looked to be a doe was working its way through the heavy brush across my front. I was really traveling light so had only stuck my flashlight in my pocket and left my fanny pack at the truck. That meant I'd forgot to grab my bleat can. Rats! I made a low attempt at a fawn bleat or two with my mouth. Directly the Deer worked it's way back from my right towards the road in front of me. Somehow I kept myself from fainting - mouth calls are not my forte. As the deer cleared the brush i imediatly saw it was one of the spike horns that i have been seeing in the area. This one's spikes sort of lay back along it's neck and explained why I thought he was a doe in the brush - it wasn't the first time he'd almost got me in trouble this season. Bucks gotta be five points in bow areas. I watched the nice sized fellow, not 12 yards from me in my shooting lane, as usual giving me pleanty of shot opportunities. He was pretty sure the base of that tree looked different and was doing a look of head bobbing and keeping his eye on me the whole sequence of the evening but he never busted me. As my old friend, Eddie, in Maine used to say, "I was standing so still dust was forming on my eyeballs." After about five minutes or so of this posturing and milling about he suddenly looked towards where he had first appeared to my left. Now he was really offering it up - broadside and his attention fixed over there. I turned my head slowly (resisting the urge).

[Tom]

Way to go Bernie!! Ground level and still getting out there, can't get any better than that.Congrats.

[swampbuck]

Way to go Bernie!!Congrads and I'll be back looking for "the rest of the story" good day LOL

Thanks for shareing ya put a smile on my face this mornin

[**oneshot**]

Congrads bernie,  but do ya have to leave me hanging like that?

[ber643]

Thanks, guys, it really was a thrill for me that I have been wanting to do and tried a couple times or more last year but no sightings those times.

[4runr]

Congrats Bernie! Keep it comin!!

[Killdeer]

Bernie, I know you are typing as fast as you can, but...  

[Stickbow98]

Congratulations, Bernie....excellent shot!!      

That smile on your face proves the real meaning of a trophy is what it means to YOU...not to anyone anyone else or how much it "scores", but how proud you are of it and should be!      

Happy as hell for ya,

>>--Ron--<>

[Terry Green]

Where's the smilie con that does back flips!!!!!!

Hot Dang way to go Bernie!!!!!!!!!!!!

Waiting for the next 'instalment'.

[SHOOTO8S]

Outstanding!Looks like you made a 1st class shot..all that off season work paided off in spades.

[Golden Hawk]

Way to go Bernie!

[Charlie Lamb]

Now this is cool.... OOOOOOOORah!!! Get some Bernie!!!  

[BigRonHuntAlot]

COOL, GREAT JOB Bernie.